Saturday

"Does size matter?", We all came across this question in one form or another to the point that it became almost a synonym for the word cliché. While humans, in general, give ambiguous and often different answers to this question, ducks' response to this query is a flat out "yes". A new scientific study has revealed that, when forced to compete for females, the dominant male ducks of certain species develop a very long penis, while the weaker ones grow nothing whatsoever!

Wednesday

In what can be considered a crucial step towards reaching the ultima Thule of computing, scientists from Oxford, Münster and Exeter Universities, have developed microships that mimic the the human brain by combining computing and memory into a single unit.

Tuesday

Next time your phone runs out of battery in the middle of nowhere while you are desperately trying to send that tweet that will change the world, the solution might be as easy as wearing a solar thermoelectric device that generates energy simply by being attached to clothes, walls or even windows!

Monday

If you often find yourself struggling to conceal some unwanted thoughts only to discover that they become more resilient with every time you try to suppress them, then relax, psychology has a term that describes this very condition. It is called "ironic process theory" or the white bear problem and it simply means that the more we deliberately try to suppress certain thoughts, the more they are likely to emerge even stronger.

Sunday

As William Gibson once put it, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed", science has been blurring the boundaries between the present and the future for quite some time. In case you ever need to prove this statement to someone, take this: scientists at The University of Manchester have built the first of its kind "molecular robot" that is capable of carrying out a set of simple tasks including building other molecules.

Friday

With British scientists building an artificial embryo from stem cells and their American counterparts using a modified poliovirus to fight off cancer cells, it looks like science isn't short on achievements this week. An immunotherapy technique developed by researchers in the laboratory of Matthias Gromeier at Duke University, uses an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus to kill off cancer cells.

Wednesday

In a breakthrough scientific experiment, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a structure that looks like a mouse embryo, by using two type of stem cells and growing them in a 3D mold.

Monday

If you previously thought that jumping spiders used only six of their eight legs to walk, you might need to reconsider. A new "breakthrough" scientific paper published in in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that, contrary to what was previously thought, the ant mimicking spiders actually don't walk on six legs in an attempt to trick the predators into thinking they look like an ant, but rather they walk on all their eight legs with a tricky catch.

Friday

The Cassini spacecraft has just sent its farewell gift to NASA's scientists after venturing into Saturn's atmosphere early Friday morning. The gift came in the form of a set of images the probe took before performing a suicidal dive into the ringy planet.

Sunday

Next time someone treats you to a smallmouth bass meal, bear in mind that you may actually be taking medications WITHOUT you even noticing. A new scientific study has unveiled that human antidepressants are accumulating in the brains of bass, walleye and several other fish species that inhabit the Niagara River in the Great Lakes region.